The Standards
Edge: Collaborative Advantage™

The Standards Edge: Collaborative Advantage will contain
articles that examine how collaborative advantage can be achieved
through modification of current legal, economic, and political infrastructures.
Standardization, which can facilitate collaboration and simplify such
challenges as trade requirements, can serve as the tool that helps
to meet this goal. However, it cannot do so without openness. This
book will examine topics such as:

How do national policies impact the abilities of countries and
regions to participate in standardization and global trade? How
should those policies be changed to gain collaborative advantage?

What role does openness play in facilitating collaboration? How
can openness be guaranteed?

What are the realities and myths of the current standardization
system?

How can standardization be restructured to support the needs of
our changing economic and business environment?

What strategies are most effective for gaining collaborative advantage
at a business, industry, national, and international level?

How can and should businesses, governments, and even consumers
adapt to a dynamic global market?

How should standardization change to support the evolution of
a nation’s industrial focus and policy from agricultural, to industrial,
to intellectual?

What are potential solutions for such challenges as intellectual
property ownership, competition, and technical barriers to trade?

Ultimately, this book looks at standardization as a collaborative
tool that can strengthen economic growth and benefit society. Authors
from government, industry, standards setting organizations, academia,
and the legal community provide insight into these questions. In 2007,
this valuable book, covering but also expanding beyond the conference
topics, will be distributed to conference participants and key decision-makers
throughout the world.

About The Standards Edge™ SeriesThe Standards Edge™ series is designed to tackle the
latest technological and standards issues and their impact on
business. The series includes articles from:

Senior government representatives in the US Congress, the Federal
Trade Commission, the European Union, China’s Ministry of Commerce,
and Japan’s Ministry of Economics, Trade, and Industry, among others

Standards setting organization such as the International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC), International Telecommunications Union (ITU),
British Standards Institution (BSI), International Organization
for Standardization (ISO), the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C),
and Object Management Group (OMG)

Leading educational institutions such as the Stanford University,
Georgetown University, University of California at Berkeley, University
of Colorado, Delft University of Technology, the University of Oslo,
and the University of Helsinki